13,00 € 7,80 €
Format: 15×21
ISBN: 978-953-7760-99-1
Pages: 116
Binding: tvrdi
Published: 2019.
A collection of poems by Danish-American author Cindy Lynn Brown, translated into Croatian by Mišo Grundler. Contemporary issues, original concept and innovative poetic language of the book were welcomed by the Danish literary critics.
The new collection of poems by Aida Bagić was created during a period of several years, following her acclaimed book If my name is Sylvia (2007). Dealing with memories, everyday life, “sounds of her own interior”, the author is primarily concerned with poetic language, referring back to Croatian poets experimenters like Ivan Slamnig and Anka Žagar. Out of the memories, fragments of fairy tales, transformed shards of everyday life, Aida Bagić creates a coherent poetic world, affirming it again and again as the only fragile possibility of belonging.
Sanja Lovrenčić’s book presents biographical texts by anonymous authors from the 13th and 14th century that depicted the lives of troubadours. Medival biographical texts about troubadours are a very old testimony about the interest that lives of artist awakened in their contemporaries. In a time where the only biographies written were those of saints and important rulers, poets are the only group of people that defy that rule – by being written about. Their biographies were written in a language that in medieval times, among others, was called “lenga d’oc”. Today this language is mostly referred to as Occitan, and it is considered to have been Europe’s first literary language after the classical period.
The text of these Notes flows like a mountain stream or breeze: it describes scenes from writers’ residences in which the author stayed for a little over a year, and the reflections associated with these places make up the bulk of the book. These are notes about the journey, woven with the subtle skill of a top connoisseur of language and working with words. Atmosphere, associations and images are innumerable; thoughts, questions – we recognize them all, we ask ourselves all that. But here and there, as when the folds of a fabric are separated by a gust of wind, readers see that this is not all: from the notes made between the trips they catch hints of the horizon of harsh and stupid reality that led the author to go on the road again and again. “You cover reality with a veil and you see better,” she writes in this book. Traveling with clear thoughts and open eyes, Sanja Lovrenčić covers and reveals reality with a unique fabric woven of words. (Iva Valentić, ed.)
